Biography
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is an American film and television director. Born on 6 November 1972 in Laredo, Texas, he holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the American Film Institute. He began his career as a personal assistant to Martin Scorsese, Nora Ephron and Alejandro González Iñárritu, later working as a second unit director on films including Babel (2006), Julie & Julia (2009) and Argo (2012).
Gomez-Rejon made his feature directorial debut with the slasher film The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014). He subsequently directed the coming-of-age film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and the historical drama The Current War (2017). His television credits include directing episodes of Glee (2010–2012) and American Horror Story (2011–2014), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie for the episode from Coven. He has also directed episodes of Hunters (2020).
